Canadian Strikers Confront Carnival CEO at Shareholders' Meeting
NEW YORK, April 16, 2014 /CNW/ - Striking Canadian workers will protest at Carnival Corporation's annual shareholders meeting tomorrow to denounce CEO Arnold Donald's role in attacking their livelihoods.
| WHO: |
Striking Canadian workers and U.S. supporters |
| WHAT: |
Protesting at Carnival Corporation shareholders' meeting |
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Thursday, April 17, 7:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. |
| WHERE: |
Four Seasons Hotel, 57 East 57th Street, New York |
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In addition to his position as Carnival CEO, Arnold Donald serves as a key member of the board of directors of Crown Holdings, one of the world's largest manufacturers of food and beverage cans.
Crown Holdings provoked a strike at its factory in Toronto last September by demanding huge concessions to employees' wages, pensions and benefits. Crown has prolonged the strike for eight months with demands such as a two-tier job structure that would permanently relegate young workers to low-wage survival jobs.
Crown's Canadian employees have travelled to New York to demonstrate at tomorrow's Carnival Corporation shareholders' meeting and to publicize a boycott of Carnival cruises.
Canadian pensioners' and labor organizations, representing more than 1.5 million members, have endorsed a boycott of Carnival cruises to protest Arnold Donald's role in the Crown Holdings labor dispute.
Donald is undermining Carnival's own business plan by supporting attacks on jobs with decent wages and pensions that make it possible for the middle class to take cruises.
The Canadian strikers will be protesting at the Four Seasons Hotel tomorrow beginning at 7:30 a.m.
SOURCE: United Steelworkers (USW)
Stuart Deans, USW on-site media contact, 647-226-8792, [email protected]; Joe Drexler, USW Strategic Campaigns, 416-544-6009, 416-434-7907, [email protected]; Bob Gallagher, USW Communications, 416-544-5966, 416-434-2221, [email protected]; Candace Huntly, media liaison, 416-721-6858, [email protected]
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